Our Story: Christine’s Journey

Women To Be

Girls deserve the right to dignity. Girls should be respected every day of the month in order to foster a state of high self regard.

Girls are the greatest untapped resource know to humankind. When a girl has what she needs to succeed, she will. And she will elevate the quality of life for everyone.

Providing girls and women with an effective method for menstrual management and a sex education is not a women’s problem. It is a human rights issue that everyone needs to solve.

History and Plans for the future:

Women to Be has twice been to Nepal and once to Guatemala. In 2018,
Women To Be plans to open a sewing center outside Kathmandu which will
offer training and employment in sewing to local women. These women
will be paid a fair wage to fabricate 6000 kits which will then be
distributed to girls and women in mountain areas. Sex educators will
teach girls and women how their bodies work and the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Girls and women will receive a calendar so then can count their days to
avoid unintended pregnancy.

Also in 2018, Women To Be will visit Zambia to deliver 1000 made by
volunteers in the U.S. Research will be done to establish a sewing
center there also.

Founder and President, Christine Glidden, has been working on this
project as a volunteer since July, 2014. Women To Be is incorporated in
New Mexico and designated by the IRS as a 501c3 since July, 2015.
Recently, it submitted its first 990 tax report. Virtually all
donations go directly to the project with no-to-little overhead. It
exists on the generosity of others either in donations or time and
expertise.

Women to Be is a strategic, effective and scrappy group of savvy individuals who do what they say they will.